Journal of Language and Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Language and Politics is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
(De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis52
News on fake news29
Review of Hart (2025): Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics28
How quotation marks do mockery in online politicized discourse25
Utopia, war, and justice21
Limits, frontiers, antagonism16
Review of Shi-xu (2024): The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies13
Shaping gender policies at the COPs12
Demarcating rights in divided social worlds10
Critical junctures beyond the black box10
Review of Howard (2023): Multilingualism in the Andes: Policies, Politics, Power10
A meta-discursive analysis of engagement markers in QAnon anti-immigration comments10
Attack of the critics9
Review of House & Kádár (2025): Language and Politics: A Cross-cultural Pragmatic Perspective9
“You are fake news”8
Review of Price & Harbisher (2021): Power, Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Framing Public Discourse8
Review of Scotto di Carlo (2025): A Critical Discourse Analysis of Violence against Women: From D.A.R.V.O. to Institutional Courage8
Review of Demata (2023): Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA: A Discourse-historical Analysis8
Serbian Progressive Party’s shameless normalization of expressing sycophancy toward the leader8
Perception of charisma in text and speech8
Review of Lütge, Merse & Rauschert (2022): Global Citizenship in Foreign Language Education: Concepts, Practices, Connections8
Review of Butler (2024): Political Discourse Analysis: Legitimization Strategies in Crisis and Conflict7
“The rock of stability?”7
Equivocation in media communication7
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Discourses and practices of the ‘New Normal’6
Review of Rüdiger & Dayter (2025): Manipulation, Influence and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language6
Setting boundaries between crime and rights6
Multimodality as civic participation5
Review of Chiluwa (2021): Discourse and Conflict: Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-building5
Review of Fotiadou (2022): The Language of Employability: A Corpus-Based Analysis of UK University Websites5
Visions of the good future5
Constitutive representation of womanhood5
Examining political influence on language5
Enemy narratives5
Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South5
Romania’s first female prime minister’s meme-ification4
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The aesthetic values of the semiotic choices in Arab protests4
‘If you see [blank], say [blank]’4
The discursive representation of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Austrian news coverage: 2010–2015–20204
A fence of opportunity4
The (anti-)political logic of authoritarian institutionalism4
Traditional beliefs as target and weapon4
“These are not just slogans”4
From Barack Obama to Donald Trump4
Reimagining Europe and its (dis)integration4
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From controversy to common ground3
Discourse theory and the turn to practice3
Navigating the ideological tide3
The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados’ prime minister Mia Mottley3
Negotiating trust through COVID-19 press briefings3
The construction and legitimation of Elisa Loncón as a Mapuche female political leader on Instagram3
Review of Closs Stephens (2022): National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political3
Review of Seargeant (2024): The future of language: How technology, politics and utopianism are transforming the way we communicate3
No one needs to teach Macedonians what Europe is3
Farmers as symbol of ‘the people’3
Review of Nartey (2022): Political Myth-making, Populist Performance and Nationalist Resistance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s Construction of the African Unity Dream3
Review of Knoblock (2020): Language of Conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian Crisis3
Rhetorical (ir)responsibility in the Australian Parliament3
Review of Caimotto & Raus (2023): Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-shaping of Ideological Discourse3
Review of Chun (2022): Applied Linguistics and Politics2
Review of Taylor, Goodman & Dunmore (2025): The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities2
Review of Ali (2024): Policy, Media, and the Shaping of Spain-Morocco Relations: Discursive Representations of Migration to Ceuta and Melilla2
Discourses on gender in climate change adaptation projects of Bangladesh2
Review of Arnall & Chenoweth (2025): Universality and Translation: Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics2
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From more to less ‘Civil’ borderline discourses in mainstream media and government2
“Hope dies – Action begins”2
Review of Bennett (2025): Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse: Towards a Linguistic Sociology of Absences2
Reporting the others’ speech, uncovering China’s world dream2
“We pursue justice”2
Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change2
Review of Handford & Gee (2023): The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis2
Subverting EU legal concepts2
On the language of liberalism2
Review of Stavrakakis (2024): Populist Discourse: Recasting Populism Research2
Widening the North/South Divide? Representations of the role of the EU during the Covid-19 crisis in Spanish media2
Sailing toIthaka1
Mass identifications and mythical violence1
Language, Politics and Media1
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Return migrants from the United States to Mexico1
Populist radical right beyond Europe1
Review of Statham (2022): Critical discourse analysis: A practical introduction to power in language1
Polarising metaphors in the Venezuelan Presidential Crisis1
Review of Li, Lui & Fung (2020): Systemic functional political discourse: A text-based study1
Radical Right-Wing Populism and Borders1
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The arrival of the populist radical right in Chile1
“Türkiye,” not “Turkey”1
The utility of (political) dogwhistles – a life cycle perspective1
Discourse Theory and the Turn to Practice1
Review of Feldman (2020): The Rhetoric of Political Leadership: Logic, and Emotion in Public Discourse1
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A topic modeling-assisted diachronic study of “One Country, Two Systems” represented in Anglo-American newspapers1
Politician, activist… or hero?1
The language of power or the power of language?1
Far-right discourse in Brazil1
Review of Guenther (2024): The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It1
Fighting authoritarian populism with populism in polarised Turkey1
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France’s “drôle de guerre”1
‘They will not survive here’1
Jair Bolsonaro and the defining attributes of the populist radical right in Brazil1
The static welfare claimant vs. the dynamic migrant1
New opportunities for discourse studies1
Review of Musolff & Breeze (2022): Pandemic and Crisis Discourse Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy1
Review of Romano (2024): Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts1
Review of Russell (2024): Fighting Words: A Critical Approach to Linguistic Transgression1
Gender, language, and representation in the United States Senate1
Giulia Cecchettin’s feminicide in the Italian online press1
Review of Stefanie (2021): Discourses of the Arab revolutions in media and politics1
The populist radical right in Australia1
Review of Íñigo-Mora & Lastres-López (2024): Discourse Approaches to an Emerging Age of Populist Politics0
The use of metaphors to construct crisis discourses in describing COVID-19 vaccines in the Chinese and the American news media0
Interests convergence in global human rights politics0
Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South0
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Discourse Theory and Strategic Communication0
The European migrant crisis in Polish parliamentary discourse0
Review of Demasi, Burke & Tileagă (2021): Political communication: Discursive perspectives0
Review of Al-Shboul (2023): The Politics in Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective0
Review of Ilie (2024): Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis0
Dimensions of time and space in narratives for climate action0
Framing the political conflict discourse in Chinese media0
Anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism, and human-orientation in environmental discourse0
Review of Merkle & Baer (2024): The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship0
Reverberations0
Of infiltrators and wild beasts0
Humanitarian discourse as racism disclaimer0
Temporal agency of social movements0
Review of Wachowski & Sullivan (2022): Metonymies and Metaphors for Death Around the World0
The delegitimisation of Europe in a pro-European country0
“A closed border is a compassionate border”0
The awkward rhetoric of Spanish liberalism0
“Britain was already cherry-picking from the European tree without bothering to water the soil or tend to its branches”0
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Taking the left way out of Europe0
Review of Stavrakakis & Katsambekis (2024): Research Handbook on Populism0
Reactions to interruptions in Finnish, French and German parliamentary debates0
Revealing China’s diplomatic narratives of the Belt and Road Initiative0
Review of Leal (2021): English and Translation in the European Union: Unity and Multiplicity in the Wake of Brexit0
Political homophobia0
In the name of the nobility of the cause, what I did is right0
Legitimizing the interventions recommended in “European Research Area Policy Agenda 2022–2024”0
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Review of Fetzer & Weizman (2019): The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres0
Populating ‘solidarity’ in political debate0
“First forced displacements, then slaughter”0
“Does being pretty help?”0
Review of Claridge (2025): News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press0
Mearsheimer, Putin, ideology, and the war in Ukraine0
BIOMETRIC CITIZENS in smart cities0
Review of Chambers & Demir (2024): Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches0
Environmental conservation and urban development as competing stories of place and space in Singapore0
Supplementing the tropes0
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Review of Korhonen, Kotze & Tyrkkö (2023): Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary Discourse Across Time and Space0
Review of Augé (2023): Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse0
A meaningless buzzword or a meaningful label? How do Spanish politicians usepopulismoandpopulistaon Twitter?0
Unveiling ideological shifts in news trans‑editing0
Activism or slacktivism?0
Review of Pennycook (2021): Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Reintroduction0
Review of Koller (2023): Voices of Supporters: Populist Parties, Social Media and the 2019 European Elections0
The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians0
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)0
Linguistic landscapes of activism0
Recontextualizing the “community with a shared future for mankind”0
Entrepreneur or capitalist?0
“Almost a mother tongue”0
Borderless fear?0
Review of Deringer & Ströbel (2022): International Discourses of Authoritarian Populism: Varieties and Approaches0
Social media, politics, and the rise of the anti-refugee far-right in Turkey0
Discourse and transformation0
“There is new technology here that can perform miracles”0
Inside the echo chamber0
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What’s in a name?0
Review of Wang & Huan (2025): Negotiating Climate Change in Public Discourse: Insights from Critical Discourse Studies0
“We” in the EU: (De) legitimizing power relations and status0
Border-making as illiberal politics0
Review of Charteris-Black (2020): Metaphors of Coronavirus0
Review of Catalano & Waugh (2020): Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond0
“Thoughts & prayers,” conspiracy theories, and laughing emojis0
Review of Fariña (2023): Psychological Borders in Europe and the United States: Contemporary Nationalism, Nativism, and Populism0
Epistemic stance and public discourse on irregular migration in one of Europe’s outermost regions0
Legitimation in revolutionary discourse0
“A massive field of action”0
Navigating Brexit through fear0
The Tennessee three0
Review of Verschueren (2021): Complicity in Discourse and Practice0
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“We are workers, we are not slaves”0
Review of van Dijk (2024): Social movement discourse: An introduction0
De/legitimising EUrope through the performance of crises0
Leadership in numbers0
Disalignment in the EU0
Exploring the evolution of the concept of liberty in the U.S. presidential inaugurals0
Review of Baker, Vessey & McEnery (2021): The Language of Violent Jihad0
Moral panic and (in)security0
Review of Akbari (2020): Iran’s Language Planning Confronting English Abbreviations: Persian Terminology Planning0
Revisiting the rhetorical construction of political consent0
Community organising and radical democracy0
Doing gender at the far right0
Review of Matthiessen, Wang, Ma & Mwinlaaru (2022): Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics0
Fighting talk0
Review of Harvey (2025): The Rhetoric of Manipulation: Unmasking Semantic Perversions0
Positioning antagonistic discourses in the (de)bounded spaces of power0
Studying affect through discourse theory0
Review of Forchtner (2023): Visualising far-right environments: Communication and the politics of nature0
“The youths are wiser now”0
Review of Ajšić (2021): Language and Ethnonationalism in Contemporary West Central Balkans: A Corpus-based Approach0
Review of Carpentier & Wimmer (2025): Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach0
The good, the bad, and the ugly0
The groundwork of Putin’s war0
Review of Almanna & House (2023): Translation Politicised and Politics Translated0
Review of Wu (2023): Media Representations of Macau’s Gaming Industry in Greater China: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis0
Review of Ajšić (2025): Modeling Metalinguistic Discourse and Language Ideologies0
Review of Rajandran & Lee (2023): Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia: Legitimising Governance0
From “them” to “us”?0
Beyond the law0
Review of Tachtiris (2024): Translation and race0
Review of Parnell (2024): Constructing Brexit Britain: A Corpus-Assisted Approach to National Identity Discourse0
The representation of migrant identities in UK Government documents about Brexit0
Review of Yu (2022): Moral Metaphor System: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach0
Policy discourse in times of crisis0
Review of Stibbe (2024): Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live By0
Review of Bielsa (2023): A Translational Sociology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Politics and Society0
Commemoration and radical right-wing populism in European borderlands0
Review of van Dijk (2021): Antiracist Discourse in Brazil: From Abolition to Affirmative Action0
ICT environmentalism and the sustainability game0
Symbolic-descriptive representation in the Chilean Constitutional Convention0
Review of Serafis (2023): Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal Discourse and Argumentation in Times of Multiple Crises in Greece0
Emergent Twitter publics through political scandal0
Review of Newth (2024): Fathers of the Lega: Populist Regionalism and Populist Nationalism in Historical Perspective0
Populism and contingency0
When pro-vaccine media discourses meet vaccine hesitancy0
Review of Feldman (2021): When Politicians Talk: The Cultural Dynamics of Public Speaking0
Review of Wodak & Forchtner (2021): The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics0
The populist radical right beyond Europe0
Cultivation of sustainability in a discourse of change0
Review of Cheng & Machin (2023): The law and critical discourse studies0
From social awareness to authoritarian other0
‘We’re saying that we trust them but really we don’t’0
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Review of Baysha (2022): War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine0
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National identity revisited0
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